Administrator

Bishop

Hunter 10th Ward

Board Memberships and Affiliations

Director

Utah Correctional Industries

Â Â Â Â Â WEST VALLEY CITY - A former LDS bishop and administrator with the Utah Department of Corrections was accused Tuesday of molesting several teenage boys over an extended period.Â David James Gomez, 57, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Monday for investigation of 50 counts of forcible sodomy, 15 counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, 10 counts of sodomy on a child, all first-degree felonies, and 50 counts of forcible sexual abuse, all second-degree felonies.
He was being held Tuesday without bail.

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Â Â Â Â Â Gomez is accused of raping, sodomizing and fondling several boys 10 to 13 years ago, according to police.
He came in contact with the boys while serving as bishop of the Hunter 10th Ward.Â Â Â Â Â Gomez is director of Utah Correctional Industries for the Department of Corrections.He was placed on administrative leave following his arrest Monday.

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Â Â Â Â Â The original victim who stepped forward picked Gomez out of a photo lineup, according to a jail report.

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Â Â Â Â Â Neighbors described Gomez as a man who would go out of his way to help others in the neighborhood.
Gomez was involved with the ward Scouting program, according to neighbors.

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Â Â Â Â Â Gomez was hired by the Department of Corrections in 2000 in human resource management.He was named deputy director of UCI in 2002 and

Gomez, who was charged with three counts of sodomy on a child and three counts of child sexual abuse, was accused of abusing a boy on many occasions in 1989 and 1990 after the boy sought counseling from him at the age of 13.The alleged victim did not report the abuse until 2004. By that time, a four-year legal deadline to prosecute Gomez for adult sex crimes had already passed.Gomez, who was an administrator for the Utah Department of Corrections, was instead charged under a 1991 law allowing child sex crime charges to be filed within four years of when an adult victim reports them, regardless of when they occurred. Although the alleged victim in the case against Gomez says he can recall the events, he is less clear about the exact dates they occurred, according to court documents.Parker said in court he had hoped to use information from a witness who kept a journal entry to prove Gomez sexually abused the victim in the spring of 1989 before his 14th birthday. But Gomez produced old day planner entries and correspondence that placed doubt on whether the abuse occurred during that time frame, Parker told the court Monday.

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A second victim also came forward to allege Gomez had repeatedly abused him as well, according to court documents.Gomez was never charged with the alleged crimes as that victim was clearly 14 when the events supposedly occurred and prosecution deadlines had already passed, the documents said.

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Gomez, the former director of Utah Correctional Industries at the Utah State Prison, was fired a year ago after the abuse charges were filed.It was unclear Monday whether Gomez could get his job back now that the charges have been dismissed.

Polygamy has ALWAYS been an abomination. (Jacob 2:23-24 and Jacob 3: "...and behold, David and Soloman had many wives and concubines and this is an abomination unto me, saith the Lord"...AND the reason WHY the Nephites were almost all destroyed! - Jacob 3) The Manifesto (reversal of polygamy), and the Blacks getting the priesthood "revelations" were politically used to prevent U.S. Government from financial and civil liberty sanctions against the church.

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David James Gomez, 57, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Monday for investigation of 50 counts of forcible sodomy, 15 counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, 10 counts of sodomy on a child, all first-degree felonies, and 50 counts of forcible sexual abuse, all second-degree felonies.He was being held Tuesday without bail.

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Gomez is accused of raping, sodomizing and fondling several boys 10 to 13 years ago, according to police.He came in contact with the boys while serving as bishop of the Hunter 10th Ward.Gomez is director of Utah Correctional Industries for the Department of Corrections.He was placed on administrative leave following his arrest Monday.

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The original victim who stepped forward picked Gomez out of a photo lineup, according to a jail report.

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Neighbors described Gomez as a man who would go out of his way to help others in the neighborhood.Gomez was involved with the ward Scouting program, according to neighbors.

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Gomez was hired by the Department of Corrections in 2000 in human resource management.He was named deputy director of UCI in 2002 and

Deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney Paul Parker said Monday that the prosecution was frustrated by the state's definition of sexual abuse of a "child" as someone younger than 14 years of age, the time limits on prosecuting sex crime cases and day planner records from David James Gomez, the accused 58-year-old.

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Gomez, who was charged with three counts of sodomy on a child and three counts of child sexual abuse, was accused of abusing a boy on several occasions in 1989 and 1990 after the boy sought counseling from him at the age of 13.The alleged victim did not report the abuse until 2004.

By that time, a four-year legal deadline to prosecute Gomez for adult sex crimes had already passed.Gomez, who was also an administrator for the Utah Department of Corrections, was instead charged under a 1991 law allowing child sex crime charges to be filed within four years of when an adult victim reports them, regardless of when they occurred.

Although the alleged victim in the case against Gomez says he can recall the events, he is less clear about the exact dates they occurred, according to court documents.Parker said in court he had hoped to use information from a witness who kept a journal entry to prove Gomez sexually abused the victim in the spring of 1989 before his 14th birthday.

But Gomez produced old day planner entries and correspondence that cast doubt on whether the abuse occurred during that time frame, Parker told the court Monday.

David J. Gomez, 57, has not been formally charged in Salt Lake County, but likely faces numerous counts of sodomy, forcible sexual assault, aggravated sexual abuse and sodomy on a child, said West Valley City Police Capt. Craig Black.

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Gomez met the boy through church-related activities, police said.

Gomez is the director of Utah Correctional Industries, which employs about 700 inmates to make road signs and license plates for the state, said Corrections Department spokesman Jack Ford.

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Ford said Gomez has been on unpaid administrative leave since Monday afternoon, when West Valley City police officers showed up at Corrections Department headquarters to arrest him.